Timon KuitProgram Manager| The White CompanyLondon, United Kingdom
What were those crucial moments where the PM, a team member or even a stakeholder made the difference between a successful project or a project failure? What was the improvement in communication or tool/technique that was used that made it possible to achieve customer satisfaction, meet the business objectives or improved the quality? We would like to know your experiences!!
As part of our day to day we do not always reflect on the great successes we've achieved. Or we don't pay enough attention to the guidance from others so we can learn from them. This is why we started this group to not forget these special moments of leadership!
To make each submission easy to read and consistent, we would like to use the template below:
Industry:
Duration of the project:
Project challenge: (Why were we expecting a project failure?)
What changed to the project so the objectives were met:
Keywords that describe the leadership approach: Saving Changes...
Senior Projects Manager | Field & Marten AssociatesNew Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
Industry: Construction
Duration of the Project: 2 Years
Project Challenge: Tight Milestones and Complex Structure
Changes: Re-evaluation of certain Construction Methodologies and Schedule Compression
Leadership Appraoch: Experience, Communication, Influence, Team Work Saving Changes...
Sergio Luis ConteHelping to create solutions for everyone| Worldwide based OrganizationsBuenos Aires, Argentina
The first thing to do is to clear understand what project sucess means and how you will meassure it. In my case, is to state project objectives to be achieved. Things like "growh 5% in market share in the current year" is not a project objective. So, if you accept it, your project will be considered fail. Why? Because you have to understand that the project will assure that you will create the product/service/result as defined. But defined the right product/service/result is outside the project scope. Project is about activities. For example, you mentioned "customer satisfaction". That is quality. But the customer satisfaction will be achieved by the product/service/result not by the process to create it (the project). Saving Changes...
Phil BristolCEO| Projectivity SolutionsSacramento, Ca, United States
Industry: Semi-Conductor Equipment Manufacturing
Duration of the project: 6 months
Project challenge: (Why were we expecting a project failure?) Company had been fired by a Pacific Rim chip manufacturer ($24M loss) for late delivery
What changed to the project so the objectives were met: Consolidated schedule to unify six projects along with schedule compression.
Keywords that describe the leadership approach: Collaboration Saving Changes...
Phil BristolCEO| Projectivity SolutionsSacramento, Ca, United States
Industry: Educational Test Development, publishing, scoring and reporting (K-12)
Duration of the project: 2 years
Project challenge: (Why were we expecting a project failure?) Development, testing, scoring and delivery processes where undocumented, 700 participants, 10 programs and client base 3,000 miles from development center - a unified schedule, signed-off by leaders and clients had not been used in 10 years
What changed to the project so the objectives were met: Established a PMO and constructed requirements driven schedule in 10 days - culminating in team and client network diagram signing party
Keywords that describe the leadership approach: Processes (business & project) collaboration, conflict transformation Saving Changes...
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